Figure 3.

Longitudinal association of baseline sarcopenia status with incident CVD, 2015–2018.

Graph shows hazard ratios (HRs) and 95%CIs for A) CVD, B) heart disease, and C) stroke adjusted for age, sex, residence, marital status, educational level, smoking status, drinking status, BMI, SBP, DBP; history of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, chronic kidney disease; and use hypertension medications, diabetes medications, and lipid-lowering therapy.

CVD, cardiovascular disease; BMI, body mass index; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure.